[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] checkrpms no longer working

Guy Albertelli II lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:57:26 -0400 (EDT)


Hi Martin,

> Ok. check-rpms-3.0.1-2.noarch.rpm is available from
> http://www.sfu.ca/acs/security/linux/check-rpms.html
> 
> The defaults are now:
> 
> For RH:
> $DEFFTPSERVER = "mirror3.cs.wisc.edu";
> $DEFFTPUPDATES = "pub/mirrors/linux/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$DISTROVERSION/updates";

Grr,

so they stick all of the ix86 files in .../i386/...

So check-rpms is trying to be smart, sees it wants the i686 file and
tries to get it from ../i686/... and fails.

Could it maybe fail back to the i386 dir in case of failure?

Or perhaps you have a better idea.

-- 
guy@albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-3-9-